Garment hanger



Dec. 25 1923. 1,478,771

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UNITED STATES WITCHEB S. SETTLE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT HANGER.

Application flledAugust 15, 1922. Serial No. 582,020.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known-that I, WITCHER S. Sn'r'rnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment hangers and it comprises a shoulder form having a pair of oppositely disposed, advantageously resilient, clamping arms, pivotally secured near the center of the shoulder form and provided near their pivoted ends with means for engaging portions of operatin handles, together with operating han les having portions adapted to ride over the clamping arms to raise the extremities thereof and to lower them and lock the arms in garment holding position; all as more fully hereinafter set forth and as claimed.

Tn garment hangers of the type to which the present invention relates the provision of easily operated and inexpensive means for holding the top of the garment in place on the shoulder bars is a desideratum.

Among the objects of the present invention are the provision of a coat hanger of the character described which will securely hold the garment on the top of the shoulder bar a ainst accidental displacement without in ury to the garment, permitting ready and easy placing and releasing of the garment; and the provision of a simple and inexpensive and easily assembled garmenthanger of the type described. I

y In the accompanying drawing T have shown two forms of a specific embodiment of my invention.

Figure 1 is'a, perspective view of a hanger with a garment in position thereon;

Figure 2 is a front plan view partly in section of one side showing the clamping device in elevated position in dotted lines;

Figure 3 is a top Ian view of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a sec ion through the operating handle and shoulder form showing a modification; and

Figure 5 is a detailed segmental plan view of slightly modified form of the garment hanger.

Referring to the drawings, numeral 1 indicates a bar or shoulder form which may be made of wood or light metal and 2 indicates a convenient form of hook for the purpose of supporting the garment hanger. I provide a pair of oppositely disposed clamps 3 and 4 which are made advantageously of spring wire in the form shown. The distance between the opposite arms of each clamp is greater (particularly at the extremity) than the width of the top face of the shoulder form 1, and each clamp carries near its extremity a piece of cloth, felt or fabric 5. This construction permits the clamps to spread over the garment at the extremities of the clamp and permits positioning of the arms below the top face of the shoulder form, the fabric carried by the extremities of the clamp pressing on top of the garment to securely hold it in place on top of the garment form without 1n ury from, or contact with the metal. Each clamp is pivotally secured to the shoulder form 1 by means of the pin 6 passing through the bar, the clamps bein provided with eyes at the ends and held on the pin by the swaged ends thereof. The arms of the clamps at the fastened end straddle the shoulder bar. At the fastened end each arm of the clamp is provided with a cam face 7 and the cam face 8 to gether with an indentation or recess 9 near the cam face 8. When the clamps are made of one piece ofresilient metal, as is preferred, these cam faces may be provided by shaping the clamp arms as is shown; Located in proximity to the hook 2 are the operating handles 10 which are provided with the spring legs 11 straddling the shoulder bar and pivoted in holes in the sides thereof as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 5. These handles are arranged close enough together and on opposite sides of the hook 2 so that they may be operated by the hand which is holding the garment hanger by the hook.

in placing a garment on the hanger the hanger may be grasped at the point near the hook or by the hook and the operating handles 10 may be pressed toward each other so that their horizontal portions 13 ride over the cam faces 7 of the clamps, thus lifting the clamps and holding them in the raised position without manual aid. operating handles 10 may then be spread apart .or forced towards the extremity of the shoulder bar whereupon the portions 13 thereof ride over thecam faces 8 of the clamp forcing the clamp down toward the The top of the shoulder bar, This, of course,

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shoulder forces the felt pad or fabric 5 on the to of the shoulder of the garment which has een placed in position when the clamps are elevated and prevents the shoulders of the garment sliding from the top of the garment holder. In order that the clamps may be positively held in garment holding position,

there is provided the recess 9 on the clamps, which recess serves as a seat for the portions 13 of the operating arms and holds the arms yieldingly in locked position. The arms of the clamps being resilient tend to resist the down movement of the handle and cooperate with the handle in holding the clamps in position.

'In Fig. 4 I have shown the legs 11 of the operating arm 10 pivotally secured to the pin 12 passing through the shoulder bar.

In order to prevent metal from coming in contact with the garment and creasing it or otherwise affecting it, I use the fabric 5 which may consist of a small loop of material slidably mounted on the arms of the clamp. And I preferably turn the outward extremitiesof the clamp upwardly in order that'they may not contact with the garment. The upwardly turned extremities of the clamps also serve to prevent accidental displacement of the fabric after it has once been placed in position. If desired the fabric may be stitched in place.

In the modified form. of construction shown in Figure 5, I provide the clamps with the shoulder 14 against which horizontal arms 13 of the operating handle may press for lifting the clamping arms away from the top of the shoulder form. This construction may be used in the place of the cam faces 7, if desired.

The operating handles 10 should be pivoted on the shoulder form 1 in proper relation to the pivot points 6 of the clamps 3 and 4 in order that portions 13 of the operating handles may engage the cam faces 7 and 8 (or the shoulder portions 14Fig. 5) of the clamps at the proper points to accomplish the result desired.

What I claim is 1. A garment hanger comprising a shoulder bar, a pair of clamping arms pivotally secured near the center and extending in opposite directions over the to toward the extremities thereof, the said clamping arms provided near their pivoted ends with cam faces, and independently mounted operating handles for said arms pivoted to said shoulder bar and having portions arranged to engage the cam faces of said clamps, whereby when said operating handles are swung toward the center of the shoulder form the said portions thereof engage the cam faces and raise the extremities of said clamping arms.

2. A arment hanger comprising a r, .a-pair of oppositely disposed clamping arms pivotally secured near the center of said bar, the said clamping arms provided near their pivoted ends with cam faces and recessed near one end of said faces, independently mounted operating handles for said arms pivoted to said shoulderbar and having portions adapted to engage the cam faces of said clamps and to seat in the recesses thereof.

3. A garment hanger comprising a shoulder bar and clamping arms ivoted near the center thereof and exten ing in opposite directions toward the extremities of the said-bar, each of said clamping arms comprising sides spaced toward the extremity a distance slightly reater than the width of the top of the shou der bar so that when the clamping arms are forced downwardly over the shoulder bar they straddle it near the extremities, and independently mounted means in proximity to the center of the shoulder bar for engaging the clamping arms and holdin their extremities over the top of the shoul er bar.

4. A garment hanger comprisin a shoulder bar and clamping arms ivote near the center thereof and extending in opposite directions toward the extremities of the said bar, each of said clamping arms comprising sides spaced toward the extremity a distance slightly eater than the Width of the top of the shou der bar so that when the clamping arms are forced downwardly over the shoulder bar they straddle it near the extremities, soft materialcarried by the extremities of the clamping arms and arranged to engage the top of the garment carried by the bar and independently mounted means in proximity to the center of the shoulder bar for engaging the clamping arms and holding their extremities over the top of the shoulder bar.

5. A garment hanger comprising a shoulder bar and'clamping arms pivoted near the center thereof and extending in opposite directions toward the extremities of the said bar, each of. said clamping arms comprising sides spaced toward the extremity a distance slightly greater than the width of the top of the shoulder bar so that when the clamping arms are forced downwardly over the shoulder bar they straddle it near the extremities, soft material slidably carried by the extremities of the clamping arms and arranged to engage the top of the garment carried by the bar and independently mounted means in roximity to the center of the shoulder bar or engaging the clamping arms and holding their extremities over the top of the shoulder bar.

6. The combination with a shoulder form or garment hanger of a pair of oppositely disposed resilient clamping arms pivoted near the center of the shoulder form and extending in opposite directionstoward the r ere rrr extremities thereof, each clamping arm heing provided near the pivoted end with means for engaging portions of operating handles, and a pair of operating handles each of which is pivoted to the shoulder form near the center thereof and having portions riding over and adapted to engage the said engaging means of the clamping arms, and the engaging means of the clamping arms and the engaging portions cat the operating handles being so corelated that when the operating handles are moved toward the center of the form they raise the extreme ends of the elamping arms and when moved toward the ends of the shoulder form they lower the extreme ends of the clamping arms.

7. A garment hanger comprising a shoulder bar and a clamping arm operatively attached thereto, the said arm having ortions spaced apart near the extremity an a triotion member supported by the spaced apart portions of the arm and bridging the top of the shoulder bar.

8. A garment hanger comprising a shoulder bar and resilient spaced arms operatively attached thereto to hold a garment on the bar, and a friction member carried by the resilient arms and bridging the top of the shoulder bar.

In testimony whereof, it have hereunto afixed my signature.

WITCHER S. SETTLE. 

